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rather a sheltered situation. In the open shrubbery at Singleton, at Car- 

 clew, and even in the garden of Mr. Harrison, of Che.'ihunt, many varieties 

 survived without injury; but they were killed, or so severely injured, as not 

 to be worth preserving at Claremont, at Norwich, and at Owston. At 

 Redleaf, large plants which had stood 14 years, were quite destroyed. At 

 SpofForth, a strong plant of Middlemist's camellia, upon an upper limb of 

 which had been inarched a branch of a double white SpofForth Seedling, 

 stood against the wall, and the result is that not a single leaf, nor a live bud 

 of Middlemist's camellia remains on the plant ; but the limb of the white 

 seedling is not essentially hurt, having green leaves and fresh looking buds.* 

 At North Stoneham, the Camellia myrtifolia, double red, and Waratah, all 

 out, and standards, stood well with protection. The double white, single 

 red, striped double red, and Pompone, against a south wall, with protection, 

 were in no way injured. 



Cydonia yffpowica was uninjured in some gardens near London, but in others 

 it was killed to the ground. At Redleaf, some of the dwarfs, as well as the 

 large standards, were very much cut. 



CtiiMONANTHUs/ragrans was killed at Rolleston ; I have no such report from 

 any other station. 



Caprifolium japonicum was killed to the ground at Dropmore, under a south 

 wall, but it broke vigorously from the root after Midsummer. In the So- 

 ciety's Garden, it was killed in the same situation. Cjlexiiosumwas also in- 

 jured, hut it broke again well. 



Deutzia scabra appeared quite hardy everywhere, except at Glasgow, where 

 it was almost killed. 



ERioBOTRYAj?«po?2zca was killed almost everywhere in the midland and north- 

 ern counties, although some specimens had been out many years, and even 

 of large size, and this, whether protected or exposed, and both on north, 

 south, and west walls ; it was only slightly injured in South Wales, and es- 

 caped unhurt at Carclew ; and, which is remarkable, almost without damage 

 at Owston. 



EuoNYMUs japoniciis was but little hurt against a wall in the Society's Gar- 

 den. 



'K.^^^iK japonica was found quite safe in various situations. 



Nandina domestica lived, protected with a mat, at Abbotsbury. 



80VY10UA japonica generally suffered no injury, but at Sketty it is reported to 

 have been killed. 



LiGusTRUM lucidum was generally killed ; it was however only a little hurt at 

 Sketty, and not at all at Carclew, or in Dublin ; at the latter place it has 

 lived without injury since the year 1812. 



Rhus succedaneum was killed on a south wall in the Society's Garden. 



Laurus Camphora was killed in the Isle of Wight, and in Mr. Garnier's garden 

 at Bishopstoke, in Hampshire j but it lived at Kilkenny on a southern and 

 protected aspect. 



Salisburia adiantifoUa sustained no damage anywhere. 



" NORTH AMERICA ; excluding California and Mexico. 

 AsiMiNA triloba stood without protection in the Society's Garden. 

 Anona glabra was much injured in the Society's Garden. 



* There is a great difference in the constitution of different seedling camel- 

 lias ; some only will bear forcing, and it appears that some can endure severer 

 cold than others. They should, therefore, be all tried in the open ground, 

 and it should be ascertained which is the hardiest stock to graft upon. In 

 like manner Rh. arboreum should not be inarched on ponticum (which is 

 tenderer than the American species, and will not swell to the bulk of arboreum 

 which overgrows it), but upon the Pennsylvania arborescens, which grows to 

 a very great diameter in America, when there are trees of it, which might at 

 the lower part be sawed into planks, — W. Herbert. 



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